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ICANN to fast track launch of internationalized domain names 2007-11-16 11:20:15 ICANN - The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers has announced its plans to fast track the launch of country coded top level domain
s (ccTLDs) and local language scripting at the internet governance conference in Rio de Janeiro, Brasil yesterday.
I blogged previously about the tests that ICANN performed testing the domain "test" in 11 [...] Read more:ICANN
It's official - Latin America to apply for .LAT domains 2007-11-16 06:07:31 NIC Mexico and eCOM-LAC, the organisations in charge of getting a domain extension for LatinAmerica
have announced that .LAT is the TLD that they will apply to get for this region.
In order to pursue global promotion and recognition, and to continue the growth of the internet in the Latin America
n community, NIC Mexico and [...]
Latest free list of 176 expired domains 2007-11-15 21:42:02 To try and end this long and tiring week on a high note :), I have got a real treat in store for you. I have put together a list of 176 expired domains - keyword rich, with excellent potential.
My lists are free and shall always remain free. I send my lists via my newsletter which you can subscribe to using the subscribe form to the left. Because my subscribers went to the effort of subscribing to my newsletter, I already sent them the complete list of 176 expired domains. For everyone else, I am posting a sample of the latest list of expired domains that I sent my subscribers.
Warning to all Enom domainers 2007-11-15 21:12:00 If you have an Enom retailer account or sub-account then you need to be aware that you run a risk of losing your expiring domains.
Most domainers set their domains on auto renew, in order to not risk forgetting the domain expiration date and losing that domain. If your payment method is via credit card you [...]
Snapnames accepting domain submissions for live domain auction 2007-11-15 03:05:57 Snapnames is now accepting premium domain
submissions for its auction in January 2008. Submissions will be accepted until December 11 and then screen to identify the top entries for auction.
The DOMAINFest Global premier domain name industry conference and marketplace is to run on 21-23 January 2008 and two Snapnames Live auctions are scheduled at the event. Having completed the sale of over 1,000,000 aftermarket domain names, SnapNames is uniquely qualified to run the event.
Fulltilt.com to be auctioned off because of too much traffic 2007-11-14 16:36:16 Have you ever heard of anyone not wanting free traffic
? Well, me neither... until now.
Software solutions firm Fulltilt.com - a company completely unaffiliated to the poker world - is to auction off their domain name because they are getting visited by over 60,000 poker players per month - players that are looking for the poker website FullTiltPoker.com.
Top 15 squatted .eu domains 2007-11-14 16:29:14 According to the EurId.eu's statistics there are currently 2,651,547 registered .eu domains. Germany leads the way in total number of .eu domains totaling 844,318 registrations. The sunrise period, open to trademark holders wanting to register their brands and company names, was launched in December 2005. This was followed up by the landrush free-for-all in April 2006.
Domain Development Corp names new president 2007-11-14 16:14:18 Domain Development
Corp (www.ddc.com), a California-based comprehensive monetization and full-scale domain development service, today announced they have appointed a new president. Sean P. Moriarty, formerly of Yahoo where he led the team managing Yahoo's off-network domain monetization business, joins ddc effective today.
A list of 163 expired domains for your registering pleasure 2007-11-21 14:37:26 The expired domains catchers must have been out early for the long weekend and left all these great domains unregistered. Lucky for you! I have compiled a list of 163 great expired .com domains for your registering pleasure.
If you like the names, and end up registering some, drop me a line.
I would love to hear from you.
How to get your ad on ShoeMoney for free within 15 minutes??? 2007-11-21 10:59:29 Have you ever visited the blog of The King Of Blogging, Shoemoney.com, and thought to yourself - Damnnn I wish I could afford to advertise here. The guy is a top blogger, with an Alexa rank of 2,485! Imagine the traffic your ad could you get from his blog.
Well, there are two possibilities. There is the certainty, which is buying an ad at Shoemoney.com. And then there is what I will reveal to you now. Read more:within
, minutes
Over 15,000 applications received by dotAsia for first sunrise period 2007-11-20 17:44:26 The principal registry for .asia domains - dotAsia - have announced they have recieved over 15,334 applications for domains in the first phase of the Sunrise period. The second phase of the Sunrise period commeced on November 13th, 2007 and will draw to a close on January 15, 2008.
“We are extremely pleased with the response. The process has also been smooth and calm. I am most excited to see that brand owners around the world are able to protect their names through our Sunrise process. If you can think of any brand, it has probably been registered.” said Edmon Chung, CEO of DotAsia.
Telnic to launch .TEL in 2008 2007-11-20 06:59:56 While most of use are preoccupied with the impending launch of .ASIA, there are other tlds being launched in 2008. Telnic is slowly working up towards launching the .TEL tld.
There will be a single Sunrise period in order to avoid the headaches caused by the various sunrise periods for the ASIA and EU launches. The Sunrise period will last 60 days allowing trademark owners to get their domains.
Tucows launches domain parking program 2007-11-20 06:50:26 Tucows Inc has announced they have added two additional services to their large list of interent services. They have launched a Domain Parking Program and Expired Domains Program.
Tucows domain
parking programs generate additional revenues through the automatic serving of targeted pay-per-click (PPC) advertising. In the case of the Parked Pages Program, ads are displayed on unused domain names, while the Expired Domains Program serves advertising on domain names that have expired. Under the terms of these programs, Tucows offers a 50-50 split of all net advertising revenue with the reseller.
Tucows is well known for their free privacy protection and managed DNS services with every domain purchase. These additional features will help turn them into an attractive proposition for domainers.
Is Wodka.com the real deal? 2007-11-20 05:06:17 Here is an interesting bit of news. W + K Amsterdam is behind a project to promoted Polish vodka brand Wodka Wyborova. The site claims that the original vodka is spelled with a w and comes from Poland.
It seems the site is being passed around via mass and social media. When I visited there were 300 users online. Apparently, the Polish claim that the original drink was created in Poland. They have a great campaign backed up by their domain Wodka.com.
170 amazing expired domains 2007-11-19 21:28:16 I think I am addicted to domaining. I had to physically restrain myself from registering some of the 170 domains in this list. In the end, I decided since my wife would kill me if I registered more then the 10 that I did, it was better I send the 170 to my subscribers then risk certain death :).
If you were a subscriber to my free newsletter, you would have got the full 170 names in your inbox. This post contains a sample of the names my subscribers received.
It's not too late though, you can always subscribe to my list and get the next list I send in the full.
Without further delay, here is a sample of the 170 names that I sent my subscribers:
Associate Cities / Moniker Geo Live Auction results 2007-11-19 08:36:38 The Associated Cities
conference was held in San Francisco and ended with a Live Moniker Geo Auction
. Overall 34 names were sold with a total sale value of over $475,000. It was interesting that a lot of names remained unsold as sellers passed on offered amounts. Some domains had huge reserves. TheHamptons.com was passed over on an $800,000 bid.
Here are the domains that did sell: Read more:results
Perth.com sells for $200,000 2007-11-18 12:55:05 There has been another big Geo sale. Perth
.com was auctioned off yesterday in San Francisco and sold for $200,000. Quite a nice domain to have considering the development potential for both the Australian and Scottish namesakes. It was previously valued at $100,000 by Melbourne IT. For the initial report of the sale check out this [...]
List of 112 expired domains 2007-11-17 22:55:19 I have put together another quality expired domains lists. In total, i sent my subscribers 112 expired domains.
My lists are free and shall always remain free. I send my lists via my newsletter which you can subscribe to using the subscribe form to the left. Because my subscribers went to the effort of subscribing to my newsletter, I already sent them the complete list of 112 expired domains. For everyone else, I am posting a sample of the latest list of expired domains that I sent my subscribers.
ICANN releases 6 week IDNwiki report 2007-11-27 02:29:25 ICANN launched the IDNwiki on 15th October 2007. Now, 6 weeks later they have compiled some user statistics and related information which show an interesting trend.
There were over 250,000 page views, with over 40% Chinese, 13,5% Cyrillic, 12,55% Arabic, etc.
94441 page views were made by a Netscape compatible browser, 35423 by Yeti, 34304 by IE [...] Read more:ICANN
, report
Barbados Government wins right to manage their tld .bb 2007-11-26 14:50:28 ICANN board members today voted unanimously to re-delegate the management of the Barbados ccTld .BB to the government of Barbados.
Up until today, the ccTLD was under the management of the local office of Cable & Wireless, however, the government of the West Indian nation recently submitted an application to ICANN asking for the right to [...] Read more:Government
Free expired domain list - 211 domains available to register 2007-11-26 16:58:23 My expired domain
lists are getting larger from day to day. This time around I found 211 great expired domains for my email subscribers. I send my email subscribers regular free expired domain lists.
If you are not a subscriber, you are definitelly missing out. However, it is not too late to register. My mails to [...] Read more:available
Country code top level domains - ccTld 2007-11-26 03:43:03 A country code top level
domain ccTLD is used to identify a country or dependent territory. ccTlds are two letters long. The creation and delegation of country code top level domains is managed by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority - IANA. The ccTlds usually correspond to the ISO 3166 country codes maintained by the ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency.
Here is the complete list of ccTLDs: Read more:Country
Generic Top Level Domains - gTLDs 2007-11-25 03:35:57 Generic Top Level Domains
(TLDs) are the suffixes ( extensions ) that identify generic domains. In theory they are used by a particular class of organization, however newer times have seen a drop in control of who uses these domain types.
The following gTLDs currently exist: Read more:Generic
Latest domain registration coupons 2007-11-24 17:07:49 It's that time again, I have a list of coupon codes you can use when registering domain
names. I feel there is absolutely no need to pay the full fee for a domain name when you can use a domain coupon and save. For this post I have found godaddy coupons, namecheap coupons and dotster [...]
Sedo announces second premium dot mobi auction 2007-11-24 11:12:37 Continuing in the Sedo flavor today, Sedo have announced that following the success of it's first premium dot mobi auction, they are to hold a second premium dot mobi auction.
The second premium dot mobi auction will commence on November 28 and will feature another set of 100 domains dotMobi set aside for equal allocation as [...]
Sedo promotes total website optimization 2007-11-24 11:04:36 Sedo have published a paper that looks at total website
optimization. Getting your domain optimized for clicks is not as simple as parking your domain at Sedo. There are many factors to consider.
"When optimizing a portfolio, many domainers center their attention exclusively on the advertising keyword. While advertising keyword selection is paramount to maximizing a [...]
FIFA wins fifa.co.za domain dispute 2007-11-23 15:21:27 The South African Institute of Intellectual Property Law ( SAIPL ) has ruled in favor of the complainant awarding FIFA ( Fédération Internationale de Football Association ) the rights to the domain
name FIFA.co.za.
According to the cases and decisions report on the domaindisputes.co.za website FIFA.co.za has been registered to a X Yin since November 29, [...]
Sedo announces Christmas co.uk domain auction 2007-11-24 10:59:54 Sedo, according to many, the leading domain
name after-market, has announced it's online domain name auction for Christmas
co.uk domain names. The auction is a Sedo 7 Day Christmas Auction beginning from 20th November starting at 12pm GMT and drawing to a close on Tuesday 27th November. It features such names as christmas.co.uk, christmasbreaks.co.uk, christmasgifts.co.uk, [...]
CNN published dot asia article 2007-12-02 17:25:43 CNN has recently published
an article depicting dotAsia domains as the new gold mine of the web.
For the full article visit cnn here.
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dot Asia launch - Interesting Read more:CNN
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